Serial-Position Effects in Preference Construction: A Sensitivity Analysis of the Pairwise-Competition Model

People have a stronger preference for options encountered earlier or later in a sequence than for options in the middle of the sequence. To account for these primacy and recency effects, Mantonakis, Rodero, Lesschaeve, and Hastie (2009) sketched a sequential updating mechanism, the pairwise-competit...

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Main Authors: Emina eCanic, Thorsten ePachur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00902/full